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Rev. Gordon C. Stewart

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Deepwater Horizon's effects, three years later: Things are not fine

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 05:00 am

"There are no oysters. There are no shrimp,” said Albert Naquin, chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw.

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Marriage, or not? One more state where gays can choose

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 05/15/13

My son doesn’t want to get married. He just wants for anyone who chooses the covenant of marriage to have that choice.

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In the 2012 race for the White House, is religion fair game?

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 09/05/12

The idea of keeping politics and religion separate is based on a shallow definition of religion as a professed creed rather than beliefs one practices daily in personal and public life.

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Navy sonar testing program: Biting the hand that feeds us

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 07/09/12

Even the Navy estimates that increased sonar training will significantly harm marine mammals more than 10 million times during the next five years off the U.S. coast alone.

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Current church debates are enough to make a pastor feel sad — and angry

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 02/21/12

I’m embarrassed by how ridiculous the church debate is and how absurd this church family feud looks to the world.

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The American dream is rising across the Arab world, but it's on the ropes here in America

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 03/16/11

"Sometimes I feel like a motherless child a long way from home."The homeland I mourn is the world I once thought I knew. It was far from a perfect world, by any measure, but its ideals seemed intact.

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A grandfather's concern: Literacy, literalism -- and the measure of truth

By The Rev. Gordon Stewart | 01/05/11

I’m worried about my grandchildren. They live in Kentucky. A New York Times story by Laurie Goodstein triggered the concern. Its focus was the separation of church and state, occasioned by a proposed Christian theme park.

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In this era of incivility, messianic nationalism strides to the fore

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 09/21/10

"The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace." (Letter of James)America's civil discourse is in a sorry state.

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Gulf oil-spill crisis raises basic questions about how we think of ourselves

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 06/04/10
We're at a turning point. The crisis we can't seem to kill in the Gulf of Mexico puts before us the results of a bigger crisis than the black goo that is choking the life out of the Gulf.
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They may squirm in hearings, but Wall Street oligarchs know who has the power

By Rev. Gordon C. Stewart | 04/29/10
We do not live in a democracy; we live in an oligarchy, "government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes" (Encyclopaedia Britannica).